The Bucket List

Ahh The Famous Bucket List. Most people have one or something like that. I started one way back in high school and I found that over the years that bucket list changed. There were things on my list in high school that I could care less about now as my life changed shortly after high school to which the bucket list changed.

So the list in high school was something of travel you could say. Like join the Air Force and go over seas. I did just that! I did go into the Air Force and I lived in England while in the Air Force. Got to see all of England and would not trade that time for anything! So I guess I checked off most of that list.

Then a new list came about. One of joining my church. Lots of goals/bucket list there for me! I got to go to the Temple. Visit Salt Lake etc. I guess you can say that list is added to over the years.

Last year when I started my weight loss journey, I created a "New List" of the things I wanted to do when I lost weight or as I was loosing the weight. Here are some of the "Weight Loss Bucket List"

-Go to the beach and not feel like everyone was looking at me
-Workout and not feel faint
-Do a 5k
-Buy clothing in the "normal" size section in the store(add to this be able to shop anywhere for clothing!)
-Ride a roller-coaster
-Do more around the house
-Ride a horse
-Cross my legs when sitting

These are just some of the things on that list. There are others but for a moment today I like to talk about one of them. That is riding a horse. Yep! I got to ride a horse!

This is me at Camp Oz earlier in the month. I am one of the Stake Asst. Camp Directors for our church and we take girls ages 12-18 to camp with our church.

While at camp we got to ride horses one day. In the past years I didn't ride. I felt I was to heavy and well I don't know if I could have even gotten up on that horse!

This year my goal was to drop at least 100 lbs by camp time. I did just that and more! With this goal met, I felt I could ride. It was so much fun! If I never ride a horse again, I know I got that checked off of my bucket list for weight loss! What a great ride it was. I started to rain but I had that big smile on my face the whole time.

I feel a bucket list can help make your goals. It did for me! So that check is beside the "ride a horse" now. Set mini goals to make it to your big goal. Make a list of the things you dream about and go back to it once in a while to help you reach your goal.

Now I will close here so I can go on to other things on the list........